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Guidance On The Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea
Information Technology Workers
The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory for the international community, the private sector, and the public to warn of attempts by Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, a.k.a. North
Korea) information technology (IT) workers to obtain employment while posing as non-North Korean nationals.
The DPRK dispatches thousands of highly skilled IT workers around the world to generate revenue that contributes to its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs, in violation of U.S. and UN sanctions. These IT workers take advantage of existing demands for specific IT skills, such as software and mobile application development, to obtain freelance employment contracts from clients around the world, including in North America, Europe, and East Asia. In many
cases, DPRK IT workers represent themselves as U.S.-based and/or non-North Korean teleworkers.
The workers may further obfuscate their identities and/or location by sub-contracting work to nonNorth Koreans. Although DPRK IT workers normally engage in IT work distinct from malicious cyber activity, they have used the privileged access gained as contractors to enable the DPRK’s malicious cyber intrusions
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